{"product_id":"morbid-age","title":"Morbid Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Overy''s \u003ci\u003eThe Morbid Age \u003c\/i\u003eopens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes and a host of others. Yet, as Richard Overy argues, a striking characteristic of so many of the ideas that emerged from this new age - from eugenics to the Freudian unconscious, to modern ideas of pacifism and world government - was the fear that the West was faced a dystopian future of war, economic collapse and racial degeneration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Brilliantly evoking a Britain of BBC radio lectures, public debates, peace demonstrations, pamphleteers, psychoanalysts, anti-fascist volunteers, sex education manuals and science fiction,\u003ci\u003e The Morbid Age\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a time at once different from, and yet surprisingly similar to, our own. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''History at its best''\u003cbr\u003e   \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''The carefree image of life in Britain between the wars is overturned in this magnificent account''\u003cbr\u003e   Peter Preston, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''It is hard to imagine anyone recording these times more exactly and more intelligently, or with greater insight and scholarship, than Overy has''\u003cbr\u003e   Simon Heffer, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''With learning, lucidity and wit, \u003ci\u003eThe Morbid Age\u003c\/i\u003e ... brilliantly describes the sense of an inevitably approaching catastrophe''\u003cbr\u003e   Eric Hobsbawm, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRichard Overy \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His books include \u003ci\u003eWhy the Allies Won\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRussia''s War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dictators\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltman Prizes for history in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57321376711038,"sku":"NW9780141003252","price":14.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141003252.jpg?v=1778235767","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/morbid-age","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}